Jurgen Kuster

Jurgen Kuster (1914-2010) was a German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II.

Biography
Jurgen Kuster was born in Bernburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 1914, and he enlisted in the Luftwaffe in 1935. Kuster flew Messerschmidt bomber planes, and he was deployed to fight in the Invasion of Poland in 1939 at the start of World War II. Kuster was shot down during the Battle of the Bzura, and he parachuted out of his plane. He succeeded in bailing out not far from the Polish defensive positions, and he wandered through woodland and headed towards the nearest Wehrmacht positions. Kuster passed German soldiers who were heading off to advance into the killzone, and he attempted to find a tank crew to join, intending on continuing the fight against the Poles. However, he was instead rescued by the Krankenwagen Leipzig ambulance, and he was taken behind German lines. Kuster was discharged from the service after the battle, and he was later mustered into the Volkssturm as the Soviets and Allies invaded Germany in 1944-45. He survived the war, and he worked as an aviation consultant in the decades following the German surrender. He died in 2010.